Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

It’s easier to kill a dangerous animal than a man who just happens to have different thoughts/values than one’s own.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

The words do not have to be perfect.

The revolution will be supervised.

Trump’s legal defense is going to be a dumpster fire inside a clown car on a derailing train.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

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This should lock up the Matlock vote

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Snoozy has-been Fred Thompson was supposed to cut an endorsement vid for his pal Newt Gingrich. But as Fred did so often during his short-lived campaign for the GOP presidential nomination, he plopped down in his recliner with a glass of scotch and was soon swept away by the sandman.

The Gingrich people called about the delay, but no matter how hard trophy spouse Jeri Thompson shoved the old fart, shouted in his face or shook him by the lapels of his green, crushed-velvet smoking jacket, Fred snored on. This is what poor Jeri spliced together to get the Gingrich campaign off her back:

The Gingrich people didn’t even notice the difference! Well, not really. But Fred has an interesting “Mirror Universe” Spock vibe in this Hannity clip.

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  1. 1.

    r€nato

    hahaha

    are there more than 3 people who cared that the 2008 proto-Trump object of fickle GOP infatuation endorsed Gingrich?

  3. 3.

    Hal

    Has Mitch Daniels been drafted yet? I’m guessing he’ll make the short list of possible VPs now, but damn, I just can’t get over that comb over.

  7. 7.

    Amir Khalid

    @JPL:
    If you have to take Noot off somebody’s hands, you should demand at least $100,000 plus expenses for his care & feeding.

  11. 11.

    Warren Terra

    Sneer at the Matlock vote all you want, but remember they are contesting Florida, which is home to no small number of superannuated shut-ins who watch a lot of reruns and believe a lot of what they watch.

  12. 12.

    Raven

    Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert noted, for instance, that few Republicans received copies of the speech. “Most presidents are a little more bipartisan,” Gohmert said of the slight, before arguing that Obama’s strategy “of working from ignorance” in the Afghanistan war is “no way to go through life, son.”

  14. 14.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Raven: Gohmert, who’s been a member of the house under two presidents – Bush and Obama. What a stupid ass he is.

  15. 15.

    Kirbster

    Fred Thompson, as Arthur Branch, was always my least favorite DA on “Law & Order”, as he was always lecturing his underlings and bloviating about how the Supreme Court got this or that decision wrong. In other words, he was just playing Fred Thompson. I much preferred Steven Hill as Adam Schiff, the world-weary realist who had one eye on his re-election and the other eye on avoiding messy, complicated trials if a plea deal was possible.

  16. 16.

    Mike

    At least Newt’s got a guy who can help him get his scooter at absolutely no cost to him (just the taxpayers–Medicare foots the bill). Both ironic and fitting, really.

  18. 18.

    Comrade Javamanphil

    @Kirbster:

    I much preferred Steven Hill as Adam Schiff, the world-weary realist who had one eye on his re-election and the other eye on avoiding messy, complicated trials if a plea deal was possible.

    The episode where his wife dies and the little whimper he made at that moment was one of the most heartbreaking in TV history. He was a very under appreciated character on that show.

  21. 21.

    Violet

    The other day in the car I decided to tune into wingnut radio to see what they were saying. Hannity had Fred Thompson on as a guest. Hannity gamely laughed at Fred’s “jokes” and tried to keep the conversation moving forward, but even he couldn’t make sense of Fred’s rambling monotone.

    Hannity asked Fred if he’d consider coming back to do a radio show and Fred said, “No, because when you do a radio show you have to be there at the same time every day. That just didn’t fit with my schedule.” Even Hannity struggled to spin that one. I guess Fred has never had to show up day after day at the same time for a job like most people.

  22. 22.

    Nylund

    Is it just me or with every passing year does Kelsey Grammer look more and more like Fred Thompson? Given Kelsey’s penchant for embracing the GOP crazy, I foresee a time in the future when the GOP trots out Kelsey as their latest hope to find an actor become the next St. Ronnie.

  24. 24.

    geg6

    @Nylund:

    Oh, FSM please, don’t do this to me! Jeebus, all I need is to again be forced live through another GOPer b-list actor presidency. Fuck me sideways.

  25. 25.

    maya

    @Nylund:

    I foresee a time in the future when the GOP trots out Kelsey as their latest hope to find an actor become the next St. Ronnie.

    That’s it! That’s the guy who should play RR on the Twentieth Century FOX production of the greatest war movie never told – The Battle of Granada. Fuchen Hollywood librul bias.

  29. 29.

    Death Panel Truck

    So Noot got a recommend from the old, lazy farting hound dog on the porch. The guy who ran for president at the insistence of his trophy wife, and quit when it got too gol-durned time-consumin’.

  30. 30.

    Comrade Carter

    Thinking about the “Matlock” vote…

    If their anything like Mr. Matlock, who is essentially Andy Griffith, they’re Democrats to the end.

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